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Book Reviews
Reconstructing professionalism in university teaching: Teachers and
learners in action. Edited by Melanie Walker. 2001.
Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk: St Edmundsbury Press. 208 pp.
At the time of reading Reconstructing professionalism
in university teaching, my thoughts have already been
heavily shaped by intra- and trans-institutional
debates akin to the position of research at my own
institution vis-a? -vis teaching and learning in the
higher education sector. The University of Stellen-
bosch, like several other higher education institutions
in South Africa, has already strategically committed
itself to becoming a research-oriented university.
Does this position necessarily mean that teaching ..